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Hazeleyedgirl Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
ungrammaticallity of the sentence
I have a sentence like that which is incorrect:
*The writer was booed of poetry by his students.
The task is as follows: account for the ungramaticallity of the following sentence. Refer to the specific descriptive apparatus (rules,principles, constraints)
I know that the sentence should be : The writer of poetry was booed by his students. But how to explain it, by what rule should it look like this. Help!
is it according to the x-bar theory, that this [of poetry] is the NP [the writer] complement and it should follows the NP directly???
*The writer was booed of poetry by his students.
The task is as follows: account for the ungramaticallity of the following sentence. Refer to the specific descriptive apparatus (rules,principles, constraints)
I know that the sentence should be : The writer of poetry was booed by his students. But how to explain it, by what rule should it look like this. Help!
is it according to the x-bar theory, that this [of poetry] is the NP [the writer] complement and it should follows the NP directly???
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Hi, hazeleyedgirl. The writer was booed of poetry by his students. So, I guess it's quite correct.
- Hi, hazeleyedgirl.
- The writer was booed of poetry by his students.
- So, I guess it's quite correct.
- Especially if I say like that: The writer was booed of his poetry by his students.
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Hi, hazeleyedgirl.
The writer was booed of poetry by his students.
So, I guess it's quite correct. Especially if I say like that: The writer was booed of his poetry by his students.
The writer was booed of poetry by his students.
So, I guess it's quite correct. Especially if I say like that: The writer was booed of his poetry by his students.
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